City of London Support Specialist Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Cornwall Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gloucestershire Grampian Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sidcup South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Torpoint Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	194	182
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	26	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.326 %	0.260 %
Daily rates quoted	10	7
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£364
Average daily rate	£394	£375
% change on same period last year	+5.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£298
% change on same period last year	+17.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£25.25	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.32	£25.97
% change on same period last year	-25.62 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7972	6551
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.51 %	6.949 %
Daily rates quoted	4185	2711
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£456
Average daily rate	£462	£490
% change on same period last year	-5.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£499	£524
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	320	221
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.41	£21.99
Average hourly rate	£26.12	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+11.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.83	£25.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Support Specialist London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Support Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Support Specialist in their job title.

1 27 (45.76 %) SQL 2 25 (42.37 %) Finance 3 24 (40.68 %) .NET 3 24 (40.68 %) Windows 4 18 (30.51 %) SQL Server 5 15 (25.42 %) IIS 6 14 (23.73 %) ASP.NET 7 13 (22.03 %) SQL Server 2000 7 13 (22.03 %) SQL Server 2005 8 11 (18.64 %) Microsoft 9 9 (15.25 %) Reuters 9 9 (15.25 %) Bloomberg 10 8 (13.56 %) Statistics 11 7 (11.86 %) MS Office 12 6 (10.17 %) Windows 2000

12 6 (10.17 %) SharePoint 12 6 (10.17 %) Banking 13 5 (8.475 %) Front Office 13 5 (8.475 %) Fund Management 13 5 (8.475 %) Reference Data 13 5 (8.475 %) Linux 13 5 (8.475 %) Unix 14 4 (6.780 %) Oracle 14 4 (6.780 %) Tomcat 14 4 (6.780 %) C# 14 4 (6.780 %) Active Directory 14 4 (6.780 %) Intranet 14 4 (6.780 %) Investment Banking 14 4 (6.780 %) Publishing 14 4 (6.780 %) Financial Institution

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Support Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (40.68 %) .NET 2 14 (23.73 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (3.390 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 15 (25.42 %) IIS 2 6 (10.17 %) SharePoint 3 4 (6.780 %) Tomcat 4 3 (5.085 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (5.085 %) Apache 4 3 (5.085 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (3.390 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (1.695 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (1.695 %) iPlanet 6 1 (1.695 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 1 (1.695 %) Live Communications Server 6 1 (1.695 %) WebLogic 6 1 (1.695 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (11.86 %) MS Office 2 3 (5.085 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) SAP Travel Management 2 1 (1.695 %) SAP WM 2 1 (1.695 %) Endur 2 1 (1.695 %) Summit 2 1 (1.695 %) RMDS 2 1 (1.695 %) Kondor+
Communications & Networking 1 4 (6.780 %) Intranet 2 3 (5.085 %) VPN 3 2 (3.390 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.695 %) LDAP 4 1 (1.695 %) ISDN 4 1 (1.695 %) WAN 4 1 (1.695 %) HTTP 4 1 (1.695 %) Internet 4 1 (1.695 %) MPLS 4 1 (1.695 %) Firewall 4 1 (1.695 %) Frame Relay 4 1 (1.695 %) IPsec 4 1 (1.695 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (1.695 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (30.51 %) SQL Server 2 13 (22.03 %) SQL Server 2000 2 13 (22.03 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (8.475 %) Reference Data 4 2 (3.390 %) MS Access 5 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Reports
General 1 25 (42.37 %) Finance 2 6 (10.17 %) Banking 3 5 (8.475 %) Front Office 4 4 (6.780 %) Financial Institution 4 4 (6.780 %) Publishing 4 4 (6.780 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (1.695 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 8 (13.56 %) Statistics 2 5 (8.475 %) Fund Management 3 3 (5.085 %) Blackberry 3 3 (5.085 %) Fixed Income 3 3 (5.085 %) Equities 4 1 (1.695 %) PKI 4 1 (1.695 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.695 %) Derivative 4 1 (1.695 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.695 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.695 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 24 (40.68 %) Windows 2 6 (10.17 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (8.475 %) Unix 3 5 (8.475 %) Linux 4 2 (3.390 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.695 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.695 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.085 %) Migration 2 2 (3.390 %) Content Management 2 2 (3.390 %) CAD 3 1 (1.695 %) Process Management 3 1 (1.695 %) Change Management 3 1 (1.695 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (1.695 %) Information Management 3 1 (1.695 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (1.695 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (1.695 %) Algorithmic Trading 3 1 (1.695 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 27 (45.76 %) SQL 2 4 (6.780 %) C# 3 3 (5.085 %) Java 3 3 (5.085 %) VB 3 3 (5.085 %) VB.NET 4 2 (3.390 %) ABAP 4 2 (3.390 %) VBA 4 2 (3.390 %) Shell Script 4 2 (3.390 %) Perl 5 1 (1.695 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (1.695 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 2 (3.390 %) MCSE 1 2 (3.390 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.695 %) Degree 2 1 (1.695 %) CCNA 2 1 (1.695 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.695 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.695 %) SLA 1 1 (1.695 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 4 (6.780 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (5.085 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.695 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 11 (18.64 %) Microsoft 2 9 (15.25 %) Reuters 2 9 (15.25 %) Bloomberg 3 4 (6.780 %) Oracle 4 3 (5.085 %) SAP 4 3 (5.085 %) Lotus 5 2 (3.390 %) IBM 5 2 (3.390 %) Sybase 6 1 (1.695 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.695 %) Sun 6 1 (1.695 %) Murex 6 1 (1.695 %) Fidessa 6 1 (1.695 %) BEA